Racism In The Movie Crash

“Crash” The 2004 movie, Crash, involves stories about Caucasians, African Americans, Koreans, Iranians, Hispanics, rich, poor, criminals, cops, powerless, and powerful, and the actions and effects of racism. Funny thing is, all the characters are both victims and guilty of racism. These feelings of resentment and prejudice causes the characters to “crash” against each other, and the consequences are observed all throughout the movie. In the beginning, a black male, who is a detective, talks about how people need to “crash” into each other in Los Angeles to feel the sense of touch from people. The first scene involves Ria, a Latina woman, who gets hit from behind in a car accident, by an Asian woman. Both of them blame and makes racial

It shows him as vile and hateful as he makes them step out of their vehicle and began to humiliate the woman by doing an invasive body search while forcing her husband to stand there powerless with guns drawn on him; it’s noticeable that the officer’s partner is very uncomfortable with the entire situation, but is stuck in a situation where he has to be his partner. The entire scene really shakes the wife up, and she gets really irritated with her husband about remaining calm and not having her back. Afterwards, Officer Hansen, Ryan’s partner, asks his boss, a black man, to change partners due to Ryan being a racist; he is told that he has to come up with a silly excuse, flatulence, to ride without a partner. The ironic part of it all is the very same officer who humiliated her and her husband, has to be the same officer to save her life in a car accident. It is also shown later that Officer Hansen subconsciously has those same racial issues as he overreacts and assumes the black males, one of the car jackers, has a gun and shoots him dead. The victim turns out to be the brother of the black detective, who is having an affair with the Latina officer; he is also the one who found his body on the side of the road after Officer Hansen gets